2023-05-26

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• People in Old Testament Jerusalem suffered from widespread dysentery study finds

• FEDS Paper: Fed Communication, News, Twitter, and Echo Chambers

Horseshit

• 3D Model Subscriptions Are Coming, But Who’s Buying?

• This Stanford Professor With CIA Ties Says Aliens Are ‘100 Percent’ Already Here.

• U.S. to give away free lighthouses as GPS makes them unnecessary

  • Free Lighthouses

• Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

• Satish Kumar: the link between soil, soul and society

celebrity gossip

• My father, Henry Kissinger, is turning 100. This is his guide to longevity

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• ‘Time To Worry’: IRS Targeted Biden-Critical Journalist on Two Suspicious Dates, Letter Reveals: Tax agency investigated Matt Taibbi as he was revealing government censorship on Twitter.

Musk

• Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German News Site

  • HN comments

  It’s also worth noting that the above email was sent after 2 a.m. Pacific, which isn’t specifically relevant to the faked video. But it does make it look like Musk is a loser with no friends or anything else to do other than work. Loser.

• Twitter's head of engineering resigns a day after DeSantis campaign announcement

• Ford to bring Tesla’s charging tech into its future EVs

  • Ford will add Tesla plug to its electric vehicles in surprising move

• DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk’s SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’

• Twitter debuts a mid-tier data access plan, to almost immediate backlash

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• The FBI Knows What Car Was Used In J6 DNC Pipe Bomb, But Refuses To Identify Prime Suspect

• Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy - POLITICO

  Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison for his involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — the longest sentence handed down to date and the first for a charge of seditious conspiracy. “You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and to the very fabric of our democracy,” said U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, characterizing Rhodes as a uniquely powerful driver of the threat to democracy that day. “You are smart, you are compelling, and you are charismatic. Frankly, that is what makes you dangerous.”

• Documents reveal DHS ‘dirty tricks’ operation attacked Christians, conservatives and tied them to Nazis | Fox News

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• What is long Covid? For the first time, a new study defines it

• As Long Covid turns three, Americans play disability roulette

• Study narrows long Covid’s 200 symptoms to core list of 12

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• At High School Debates, Debate Is No Longer Allowed

• Lady's Island Middle School sixth-grader charged after brutally ATTACKING student in locker room | MEAWW

TechSuck

• Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years

Crypto con games

• The Scum Economy - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Economicon / Business / Finance

• JPMorgan to cut 1,000 First Republic employees

• Measure of Inflation Closely Tracked by Federal Reserve Increased in April

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The original dirtwork happened in 2004. The Supreme Court Just Gutted the Clean Water Act

  • (PDF) 21-454 Sackett v. EPA (05/25/2023)

• Geraldine Tyler Wins ‘Home Equity Theft’ Case With SCOTUS Ruling

  Tyler, who is now 94 years old, purchased the Minneapolis-area condo in 1999. She accrued a $2,300 tax bill, which turned into an approximately $15,000 bill after the government added on $13,000 in penalties, interest, and fees. Local officials then sold the home for $40,000—and kept the remaining $25,000.

• AP dares not ask about Ukraine - Don Surber

• Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Texas Two-Stepping Out of Bankruptcy - Michigan Law Review

• Six in 10 want FBI officials in Russiagate prosecuted.

• ‘Stick over carrot’: progressive Portland takes a hard turn on homelessness

World

• Japanese Moon Lander Crashed Because of a Software Glitch

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Satellite data show Ukraine’s forces are testing Russia’s defences

• Ukraine Sent Poor, Untrained Men into Bakhmut Meat Grinder

Health / Medicine

• Blackouts During Heat Waves Amplify Mortality and Morbidity Risk

• Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases | Hacker News

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain

• "200ft sea level rise" Ice Melt In the Pipeline | naked capitalism

• Female Electricians: A Climate Solution?

• Emissions are no longer following the worst case scenario

  • HN comments

• Magnitude 6.1 – near the east coast of Honshu, Japan

• NOAA predicts ‘near-normal’ hurricane season, with 12-17 named storms.